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Enable automatic minor core updates when root of site is a git repository
Adding this filter in a must-use plugin or functions.php will allow automatic updates even if the site is under version control:
add_filter( 'automatic_updates_is_vcs_checkout', '__return_false', 1 );
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GIT and Development URL's point to production
I would use WP DB Migrate to export the DB in the production environment. It allows you to rewrite URLs. Then you import that in your local DB.
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git and local wordpress: how to handle wordpress updates?
I would formulate your requirements like this:
repository should capture complete and precise state of site
updates should be tested locally and pushed to production
database update events should run ...
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Different color admin bars for dev, staging and production
You can use a filter to set the admin color scheme, which includes colors for the admin bar:
<?php // add a filter
add_filter('get_user_option_admin_color', 'wpse_313419_conditional_admin_color');
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WordPress Health Tool reporting version control as a critical issue
There's the site_status_tests filter, to e.g. remove the asynchronous background updates tests:
add_filter( 'site_status_tests', function ( $tests ) {
unset( $tests['async']['background_updates'] ...
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Git vs Child Theme
While I know version control approach to be used in practice, I don't think it's too common. WP has weak version control practices in general, so development of extensions doesn't quite plan for such.
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GIT and Development URL's point to production
Besides doing the find and replace on the domain as saved in the site's database, you'll also want to either:
ignore and remove the wp-config.php file from your git repo (so that the local ...
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Wordpress and Git - What folders should I track?
It depends on the situation. However, in my view, Git versioning a WordPress site is often more hassle than it's worth. The reason is because tracking the state of the site can not be distilled down ...
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Environment independent way to link to certain pages on frontend
I think the best way is to create Theme Options and let the administrator decide which page is each one, with a dropdown for example.
This way you can get the selected page no matter the environment.
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Wordpress updates and Git
In my readings (and as mentioned in OP comments) the best practice seemed to be focusing on the /wp-content/ folder, or specific custom contents therein. Syncing all the core files and third party ...
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GIT and Development URL's point to production
My preferred method is to use WP CLI's search-replace command to swap out domains in my local site. If I have example.com on my live site, I'll use example.local on my local install, so the command to ...
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What is the usual process of saving changes made at the CMS level into source control?
Generally, there are two sets of data you want to control with WordPress:
Files
Database
So, in theory, you can do it all by hand copying your filesystem and database every day. Now, let's go to the ...
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Provide logo in theme
Now how can I update the site logo? The theme header is using the_custom_logo() and so from what I can tell this file has to be
uploaded.
If your theme is using the_custom_logo() then you can edit it ...
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SSH git — How to pull a folder from repo, but not delete other directories & files on deployment server
Enter my question: When I SSH into the Linux web server where my website is hosted, how do I perform a git pull origin dev so that git doesn't delete my entire WordPress site, replacing it with only ...
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Wordpres core-update theme renames theme folder name
My first instinct upon reading this was that a Wordpress Plugin may give you more control over this behaviour. Have you considered writing a plugin to pull and apply the updates?
A quick Google on the ...
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What is the usual process of saving changes made at the CMS level into source control?
What is not safe:
Using only revisor or audit-trail plugins, it's not safe, because if s/he is an unreliable developer, he can easily modify files/DB of those plugins too to hide certain actions.
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When I try to install VersionPress, it tells me, "The package could not be installed. No valid plugins were found."
It looks like the file you downloaded, versionpress-master.zip, isn't structured like a WordPress plugin. When I unzip versionpress-master.zip, the plugin looks like it's in the directory plugins/...
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How should I be handling my theme version numbering?
It is good practise to use semantic versioning e.g. 1.0.1 MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
MAJOR version when you make incompatible changes,
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner,...
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Different color admin bars for dev, staging and production
Fortunately the solution you want is actually quite simple. Just use the 'wp_before_admin_bar_render' action hook and output CSS to change the color and background of the HTML element with the id of ...
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Syncing local content with development / staging sites
Code changes should go into GIT and pulled (or use some more elaborate script that does a build from the code pulled). Content changes should only be done on production or a "content staging" server ...
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Syncing local content with development / staging sites
For our site, we've written a Perl script that copies the database then uses wp-cli commands to tweak certain settings that are local to a given site. The script also fires off a UNIX line command to ...
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Syncing local content with development / staging sites
Overview
That's the one main caveat of WordPress development, that even a seasoned WordPress developer still wonders what's the perfect automation for syncing database content from local environment ...
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best practice on pushing staging development (database/uploads) to the live server
You can use WordMove. I have been using WordMove for deployment from last 3 months and it helps easily sync your local and live instance.
And its very easy to use as well.
Wordmove is a gem that ...
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Git vs Child Theme
If you plan to sell your theme later, I would go with the git.
It is up to you how you will organize yourself to work with the git.
What I know creating new branches in git is a breeze, and you ...
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Why Does Automattic use SVN for WordPress Instead of Git?
WordPress does a lot of things backwards. (Maybe they like to be different?) A couple things that come to mind are...
They refuse to exhibit clean code standards, and in fact reject anyone's attempts ...
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